To discuss: France’s increased deportation of Roma migrants over the last month. At today’s summit of European Union Leaders, President Sarkozy will likely defend his crackdown and attack the comparison made earlier this week by Viviane Reding, the European Justice Commissioner, to Hitler’s treatment of the Roma during the Second World War.

To monitor: Progress on the Access to the Region’s Core rail tunnel, which is meant to double the number of trains between New Jersey and New York. Although ARC received three billion dollars in stimulus funds and another three billion from the Port Authority, Governor Christie is worried that his state won’t be able to cover the costs, and issued a thirty-day moratorium on construction.